STINNER Victor added the comment:

> The Linux kernel is going to use 64-bit integer even on 32-bit CPU to store 
> timestamps, to simplify the code (to avoid the structure).

Read this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/607741/

"One of the first changes merged for 3.17 is to simply get rid of the 
non-scalar form of ktime_t and force all architectures to use the 64-bit 
nanosecond count representation. This change may slow things down on 32-bit 
systems; in particular, conversions from other time formats may be 
significantly slower. But, as noted in the changelog, the ARM and x86 
architectures were already using the scalar format anyway, so they will not get 
any slower."

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